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Gemenet DC, Leiser WL, Beggi F, et al. Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and . Front Plant Sci. 2016;7:1389doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01389.
Gemenet, D. C., Leiser, W. L., Beggi, F., Herrmann, L. H., Vadez, V., Rattunde, H. F., Weltzien, E., Hash, C. T., Buerkert, A., & Haussmann, B. I. (2016). Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and . Frontiers in plant science, 71389. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01389
Gemenet, Dorcus C, et al. "Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and ." Frontiers in plant science vol. 7 (2016): 1389. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01389
Gemenet DC, Leiser WL, Beggi F, Herrmann LH, Vadez V, Rattunde HF, Weltzien E, Hash CT, Buerkert A, Haussmann BI. Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and . Front Plant Sci. 2016 Sep 23;7:1389. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01389. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27721815; PMCID: PMC5033954.
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Front Plant Sci. 2016 Sep 23;7:1389. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01389. eCollection 2016.

Overcoming Phosphorus Deficiency in West African Pearl Millet and .

Frontiers in plant science

Dorcus C Gemenet, Willmar L Leiser, Francesca Beggi, Ludger H Herrmann, Vincent Vadez, Henry F W Rattunde, Eva Weltzien, Charles T Hash, Andreas Buerkert, Bettina I G Haussmann

Affiliations

  1. International Potato Centre Lima, Peru.
  2. State Plant Breeding Institute, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany.
  3. Bioversity International-NASC Complex New Delhi, India.
  4. Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany.
  5. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Patancheru, India.
  6. University of Wisconsin-Madison, MadisonWI, USA; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics-MaliRemagen, Germany.
  7. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Niamey, Niger.
  8. Organic Plant Production and Agroecosystems Research in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel Kassel, Germany.
  9. Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart, Germany.

PMID: 27721815 PMCID: PMC5033954 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01389

Abstract

West Africa (WA) is among the most food insecure regions. Rapid human population growth and stagnating crop yields greatly contribute to this fact. Poor soil fertility, especially low plant available phosphorus (P) is constraining food production in the region. P-fertilizer use in WA is among the lowest in the world due to inaccessibility and high prices, often unaffordable to resource-poor subsistence farmers. This article provides an overview of soil P-deficiency in WA and opportunities to overcome it by exploiting sorghum and pearl millet genetic diversity. The topic is examined from the perspectives of plant breeding, soil science, plant physiology, plant nutrition, and agronomy, thereby referring to recent results obtained in a joint interdisciplinary research project, and reported literature. Specific objectives are to summarize: (1) The global problem of P scarcity and how it will affect WA farmers; (2) Soil P dynamics in WA soils; (3) Plant responses to P deficiency; (4) Opportunities to breed for improved crop adaptation to P-limited conditions; (5) Challenges and trade-offs for improving sorghum and pearl millet adaptation to low-P conditions in WA; and (6) Systems approaches to address soil P-deficiency in WA. Sorghum and pearl millet in WA exhibit highly significant genetic variation for P-uptake efficiency, P-utilization efficiency, and grain yield under P-limited conditions indicating the possibility of breeding P-efficient varieties. Direct selection under P-limited conditions was more efficient than indirect selection under high-P conditions. Combining P-uptake and P-utilization efficiency is recommendable for WA to avoid further soil mining. Genomic regions responsible for P-uptake, P-utilization efficiency, and grain yield under low-P have been identified in WA sorghum and pearl millet, and marker-assisted selection could be possible once these genomic regions are validated. Developing P-efficient genotypes may not, however, be a sustainable solution in itself in the long-term without replenishing the P removed from the system in harvested produce. We therefore propose the use of integrated soil fertility management and systems-oriented management such as enhanced crop-tree-livestock integration in combination with P-use-efficiency-improved varieties. Recycling P from animal bones, human excreta and urine are also possible approaches toward a partially closed and efficient P cycle in WA.

Keywords: low-P tolerance; pearl millet; phosphorus use efficiency; sahel; sorghum

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